Interviews Online Lamb: What Sound
Lamb:
"what sound"
out 08.10.2001
Kein anderer ist in Englands Triphop-Szene so erfolgreich wie Lamb. Hinter dem Namen des sanften Tierchens steckt das Duo von Andy und Louise. Spot on hat sich mit ihnen unterhalten.
Louise Rhodes and Andy Barlow are Lamb, England's hottest triphop artists. Their first album, "Lamb", came out in 1996 and became one of the most important dance albums of the 1990s. "Fear of Fours" followed in 1999. Now Lamb have made their third album, "What Sound", with the hit single "Gabriel". Spot on spoke to 27-year-old Andy at his home in London.
Tell us about yourself please!
I grew up in England and went to school in the US. Then I came back to England and went to sound engineering school and got a fantastic job as a sound engineer. But six months later I got sacked for not being commercial enough. That was the day that Louise phoned me and asked if I wanted to write music.
What did Louise say?
She phoned me up and said "Hi, I'm a singer, you know. Do you want to work together?" And because I didn't have a job ...as from a couple of hours before she phoned, I said, "Yeah I'll meet up with you." And that's how it started really.
Louise and you have different musical backgrounds, don't you?
Yeah, her mother was a folk singer. She was into that kind of music and I was into electronic music. We didn't really talk about how we wanted to work, we just did it and saw what happened.
Did you have a relationship with her?
No! I thought she was really sexy. But she had a boyfriend and relatively quickly we found out that it would be the wrong thing to do. We got everything we needed from our creative relationship.
How do you work?
We don't really have a set plan or a set way of working ... if we start getting into a routine with a song, we'll just stop, and do something else, or ... approach it with just a drum machine and voice ... There's something ... raw about that because ... it's like using this part of the brain that doesn't really know what's coming and therefore it's exciting.
Where do you get your energy on stage from?
I think it's from the crowd and from the rest of the band ... It is like a ping-pong effect ... I'll bring it on and ... the crowd will react to that and go, well, he's giving energy so let's give it back. ... That's ... what our music's about. About passion, about fire. And you know when I'm on stage I'm not even Andy, I'm like super Andy. It's like something else takes over, that I can't even ... describe what happens.
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